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Re: Absolute srcdir

To: Akim Demaille <akim at epita dot fr>
Subject: Re: Absolute srcdir
From: Ralf Corsepius <corsepiu at faw dot uni-ulm dot de>
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 09:27:08 +0200
CC: autoconf at gnu dot org, automake at gnu dot org
Organization: Ralf Corsepius
References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0003271136550.9553-100000@sunapee.transcept.com> <mv48zz49vgm.fsf@nostromo.lrde.epita.fr>
Reply-To: corsepiu at faw dot uni-ulm dot de

Akim Demaille wrote:

> Ralf Corsepius sent me this morning a detailed PR with about the same
> behavior.  I'm highly tempted to consider this a bash bug, unless
> someone can demonstrate the usefulness of the following feature...
>

[..]

>
> I suppose we should drop the use of [] here.  Pfff.

What about this fragment from acgeneral.m4 (~line 4407):

        [[/\\$]]* | ?:[[/\\]]*) INSTALL="$ac_given_INSTALL" ;;

There, [[/\\$]]* is used instead of [[/\\]]*.

Seems like another workaround to this issue already crept into autoconf to me.

Ralf

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